She recalled that day of the typhoon
and the sloop crashing on the outer reefs. 1. Eyebrows knitting, she looked towards the ground a
few feet away from him, guiltily. ‘She has constituted herself leader of
the émigrés here, and feels justifiably slighted by having taken the pretend
Valades under her wing. Only the night before, in the dining room of the Hong-Kong Hotel, she had
watched him empty glass after glass of whisky, and shudder and shudder. O'Higgins returned to town
and made a night of it, nothing very wild, nothing very desperate. Instead of English villas and cottages there
were chalets and Italian-built houses shining white; there were lakes of emerald
and sapphire and clustering castles, and such sweeps of hill and mountain, such
shining uplands of snow, as she had never seen before. Immediately the
"boy" went forth with his paper lantern, repeating a cry as he ran—warning to
clear the way. Wood's bed-chamber—it was locked, with the key left in it. ”
“I wonder how he treated Gwen. He stood a little anxious and fussy, bothered by the
responsibility of her, entirely careless of what her life was or was likely to be,
ignoring her thoughts and feelings, ignorant of every fact of importance in her
life, explaining everything he could not understand in her as nonsense and
perversity, concerned only with a terror of bothers and undesirable situations. ’
Gerald eyed her with interest. She looked and felt like a fairy princess. It was a letter. "Here's one of the thieves, Sir Rowland!" cried the attendant.
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